Desert Messenger

30 www.DesertMessenger.com December 3, 2014 By Linda Taylor Our second tournament of the year featured great golf along with beauti- ful weather. The scores were com- petitive as always with the fi rst place team being Gary McGowan and Russ Leininger who fi red an 18 hole score of 38 (18 under par). Second place was earned by the team of Bruce Scott and Darryl Russell who shot 39. The team of David Swindell and George Lische fi red a 40 for 3rd place honors. Fourth place was a tie between the teams of John Hall & Grant Berube and Larry Krohling & Pete Lilly with scores of 41. Closest to the pin honors went to Tom Chopski. Long drives for the day were won by Russ Leininger and Linda Taylor. The next two tournaments at Rainbow Acres will be Dec. 4 and Dec. 18 beginning at 9:00. All desert golf- ers are invited to join in the fun. Hope to see you on the links! Winners of tournament- Back Row- David Swindell, Russ Leininger, Grant Berube, Tom Chopski Front Row- Darryl Russell, John Hall, Linda Taylor, Gary McGowan Rainbow Acres Tournament #2 SNOWBIRDS Furnished Trailers For Rent $325/mo. + up Cactus Patch RV Park 928-927-6717 Local Resident • FREE Estimates Larry - Cell 928-273-3719 DAY NIGHT SHADES REPAIRED GUARANTEED WORK! Factory Parts! Factory Chords! In Memoriam Wayv Gill Wayv Gill, 83 passed away in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho on Monday, November 3, 2014. A graveside service was held Saturday, November 15, 2014 at 11AM in Pinecrest Memorial Park. Wayv was born of James & Ag- nes Poston in Potlatch, ID on July 1, 1931. The youngest of three girls and three boys, Wayv was the only sibling not born in Sandpoint because her family moved to Potlatch, ID after the Humbird Mill closed during the Great Depression. In 1938, the fam- ily returned to Kootenai, ID when Wayv was in fi rst grade. Wayv grew up playing with her dogs, exploring the mountains and fi shing with her father on Lake Pend Oreille. After graduation from Sandpoint High School in 1949, Wayv worked for the Bonner County Abstract Company then in 1951, she went to work as a secretary for Mor- rison Knudsen during the construction of the Cabinet Gorge Dam on the Clark Fork River. In 1952, Wayv married Bill Gill of Sandpoint, ID on February 21st. After a honeymoon on the Oregon coast, they settled in Sandpoint. True entre- preneurs, Bill and Wayv owned several successful businesses over the next 40 years. In 1952, they opened Gill's Richfi eld, located at the present site of Panhandler Pies. Then in 1958, they moved uptown to the corner of First and Bridge (present site of Pita Pit), opening Bill's Mobil Service. For the next 35 years, they operated from this busy corner in downtown Sandpoint adding Honda motorcycles in 1962 and changing the name to Bill's Honda Sales. They also owned the Mobil Oil bulk plant which Wayv managed, located across the highway from Dub's in the 1970's. They raised two children, Steve and Kristi, and were both busy in youth-related activities. Wayv was a Den Mother for Cub Scouts, a Brownie Leader for Girl Scouts, ac- tive in Washington Elementary PTA, East Bonner County Library District Board and in Beta Sigma Phi. Wayv also loved the outdoors and the family enjoyed picnicking, camping, fi sh- ing, motorcycling, and especially, snowmobiling. She and Bill spent many winter weekends exploring the Selkirk and Cabinet Mountains and in the mid-1960's became some of the earliest to snowmobile in Yel- lowstone Park. They co-founded the Winter Riders and were instrumental in securing grant funds from Idaho Park & Rec for Bonner County's fi rst snowmobile groomer. In 1993, Bill passed away and Wayv sold the businesses. She moved to Quartzsite, AZ where she and Bill had spent many previous winters as snow- birds. Wayv loved the warm sunny desert and made many friends. It was while she was in Arizona that Wayv met her companion, Larry Pickett with whom she explored the desert and en- joyed summers at Island View Resort in Hope, ID. The last two years of Wayv's life were spent at North Star Retirement Community in Coeur d'Alene where she enjoyed the many friends she met, participated in the wonderful activities offered, and where her granddaughter, Katie Gill was her full-time caregiver and partner for many afternoon Domi- noes games. Surviving are her children Steve (Kelly) Gill of Coeur d'Alene, Kristi (Mike) Thompson of Sandpoint; four grandchildren Sarah (Jake) Bachman, Sandpoint; Bryan (Jill) Gill, Moscow; Travis Thompson, Boise; and Katie Gill (Joe Berry) of Coeur d'Alene; and two great-grandchildren Nolan Angell and Brayden Bach- man, Sandpoint. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Bill, her companion Larry, and all fi ve of her brothers and sisters. Memorials may be made to the Bonner County Humane Society, Sandpoint or Kootenai Humane Society, Coeur d'Alene.

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